Thu, 12 Jan 2006
Mr Damage returns // at 00:00
A couple of days work and a couple of hundred dollars, it sure beats an infinite delay and me not getting around to doing it myself! Picked up Mr Damage this morning with a new choke cable, a general service, and an operational second headlight (for the first time in its life). It is running far better than when I dropped it off!
Now all I need to do is pay the registration — $488 — and then consider more money for new tyres, and fix the dangly indicators, and maybe get the seat recovered, and then there's always more...
Today's expenditure
| Component | cost |
|---|---|
| Total | $811.00 |
| Choke cable | $27.95 |
| Freight | $10.00 |
| Spark plugs | $22.00 |
| Oil | $32.30 |
| Oil filter | $22.00 |
| Headlight bulb | $15.95 |
| Labour | $192.50 |
| Registration | $488.30 |
iPod vs Windows ugliness // at 00:00
A minor stupidity on my part and I plugged my iPod into the laptop while I'd mapped a network drive to the lowest available drive letter. The iPod started flashing its “Do not disconnect” message, iTunes started up and all looked normal... after a long time I had a look and saw that iTunes had decided that the iPod's name was the volume name of the network drive, but still nothing was happening.
Eventually I stopped it and restarted. Next time around iTunes seemed to think that the iPod had been renamed, but then claimed that it was synchronised to a different library, so I had to go through the whole rigmarole of blowing away all 6713 songs and reloading the lot — a ridiculously time consuming task!
Even after it had finished everything is still not right. Somewhere along the way the iPod has lost 23G of storage, only a subset of my library can now be copied! Next step is to restore it via the iPod updater, but that stalls wanting me to plug it into the external powersupply — the USB power isn't good enough! It shouldn't be this hard!
Interestingly, there seems to be a new folder called iPod Control
created on the fileserver volume that I had mapped to drive F:, and it
seems that iTunes was busy filling it up when I interrupted it!
Definitely a no-no there Apple!
Stay tuned for tomorrow where I see if I can successfully access all 40G of the iPod and transfer my entire music library into it....
Note to self: DO NOT plug the iPod in when there's a network drive on the first available drive letter!
